Name: Sima Yan
Pronunciation: si ma yan (1-3-3)
Year number: Ham Kang
Temple Number: Sutra
Title: Emperor Jincheng
Year of birth: 321 AD
Year of death: 342 AD
Place of Birth: Jiankang (present-day Nanjing, Jiangsu Province)
Place of death: Jiankang (present-day Nanjing, Jiangsu Province)
Reigned: 326 AD - 342 AD
Major achievements: Zhao Zhi Xianliang, persuading Nongsang, stabilizing the regime, advocating simplicity, Sima Yan himself is also a master of calligraphy
![Four hundred years of agitation: Sima Yan died young and Sima Yue succeeded to the throne, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty gradually fell into the fire[fig]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACAkQBADs=)